Point of Sale

by Peter Sansom

Peter Sansom was the Marks and Spencer Poet in Residence during 1999. Point of Sale includes his poetic 'diary' of that year, alongside other poems which cover the spectrum of family experience from young babies learning to speak ('Oh, Fuck') to the death of a parent ('Your dad died convinced you were his dad'). The personal and the public, his family and the demands made on him by the literature industry, combine in poems of wit and subtlety. He...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857544846
• ISBN13: 9781857544848
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 8.6"